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Military and National Security resource page with links to military legal offices, military research guides, military magazines, military news, military specifications and standards, the CIA, Department of Defense, national security, veterans resources, and much more.

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The Military Law Review is the premier U.S. Armed Forces journal of military legal scholarship. It has been published quarterly by The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School (JAGS), U.S. Army, Charlottesville, Virginia since 1958.

A text used to teach international and operational law subjects to military judge advocates by the International and Operational Law Department of The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School (TJAGLCS), Charlottesville, VA.

The Operational Law Handbook is a focused collection of diverse legal and practical information, and is designed and written for Judge Advocates practicing operational law. A “how to” guide for Judge Advocates, the handbook provides references and describes tactics and techniques for the practice of operational law.

The U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School Library in Charlottesville, VA, provides this comprehensive legislative history of one of the principal documents of military law, the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ).

This page contains the full text of selected U.S. Army Field Manuals (FMs), Training Circulars (TCs), and Technical Manuals (TMs), War Department Pamphlets (WD PAMs) and Department of the Army Pamphlets (DA PAMs), which particularly address some of the current research needs and interests of The Judge Advocate General's Legal Center & School Library, U.S. Army, Charlottesville, Virginia.

Originally begun in August 1971 as a Department of the Army Pamphlet series (DA PAM 27-50), the publication has been issued monthly since 1974. It is intended primarily "for the official use of Army lawyers in the performance of their legal responsibilities."

The U.S. Coast Guard Maritime Law Enforcement Academy was established in November, 2004 at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Charleston, SC to prepare Coast Guard personnel to perform as Maritime Law Enforcement Officers.

This publication of the CIA lists the heads of state, parliamentary leaders, cabinet/government ministers and other high officials in many nations of the world. This resource includes as many governments of the world as is considered practical. Some governments included are not officially recognized by the United States.

CIA World Factbook on Intelligence

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.

This brief bibliography of intelligence literature provides a wide spectrum of views on intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency. The readings cover history, technology, opinion, and some of the key personalities associated with intelligence.

Counterintelligence

Counterintelligence is the business of identifying and dealing with foreign intelligence threats to the United States. Its core concern is the intelligence services of foreign states and similar organizations of non-state actors, such as transnational terrorist groups.

The Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC®) serves the DoD community as the largest central resource for DoD and government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business related information available today.

GulfLINK was established in August 1995 to provide on-line access to medical, operational, and intelligence documents from the 1990-1991 Gulf War. Its purpose was and is to provide Service members, veterans, and any interested person with information on what happened during that war that might have affected the health of those who served.

H.R. 12471, commonly referred to as the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Amendments of 1974 (Pub.L.No.93-502, 88 Stat. 1561), was enacted into law on November 21, 1974. These amendments effected the first substantive changes to the FOIA since its initial enactment in 1966 (Pub.L.No.89-487).

Veterans Resources

War Crimes Trials Materials

Twenty-four major political and military leaders of Nazi Germany, indicted for aggressive war, war crimes, and crimes against humanity, were brought to trial before the International Military Tribunal. More than 100 additional defendants, representing many sectors of German society, were tried before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals in a series of 12 trials known as “Subsequent Nuremberg Proceedings.”

This 15-volume series summarizes the course of the more important proceedings taken against individuals accused of war crimes during World War II, excluding the major war criminals tried by the Nuremberg and Tokyo International Military Tribunals.

This report was submitted by Lieutenant Colonel Clio Edwin Straight, Deputy Judge Advocate for War Crimes, European Command, to Colonel James L. Harbaugh, Jr., Judge Advocate, European Command. It covers pre-trial and trial phases of the war crimes program that dealt with so-called conventional war crimes cases, which were conducted by the United States Military Forces in Europe, from June 1944 to July 1948.

On December 16, 1944, the German Army began the Ardennes offensive known as the Battle of the Bulge. On December 17, 113 American soldiers surrendered to a German armored column under the command of SS Colonel Joachim Piper. After the American prisoners were disarmed, they were assembled in a field near Malmedy, Belgium, and shot. The German soldiers involved in this massacre of the American prisoners were later prosecuted by the U.S. Army for war crimes.

In September 1945, Tomoyuki Yamashita, in his capacity as commanding general of the Japanese Fourteenth Army Group in the Philippines, became a prisoner of war of the United States Army Forces and was charged with violations of the law of war.

HEARING before the Subcommittee on Korean War Atrocities of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations, United States Senate,
Eighty-Third Congress, 1st Session, Pursuant to S. Res. 40
Parts 1, 2, and 3

Hearings before the Subcommittee on National Security Policy and Scientific Developments of the Committee on Foreign Affairs House of Representatives Ninety-First Congress Second Session APRIL 29, MAY 1, 6, 1970

In asking the Library of Congress to prepare this historical survey of Communist treatment of POW's, the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee was motivated by the belief that such a survey would help us to better understand the difficulties which confront our Government in its current negotiations with Hanoi on the POW issue.

The official report of the Nazi War Crimes &
Japanese Imperial Government Records Interagency Working Group. This group was mandated by the Nazi War Crimes Disclosure Act (P.L. 105-246) and the Japanese Imperial Government Disclosure Act (PL 106·567). Published April 2007

Military Law Task Force
The National Lawyers Guild Military Task Force. Assists in military issues, training and mentors counselors and beginning military law attorneys in all aspects through training materials and direct communication.